The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 5

This…
In an instant, stormy waves rose in Mu Yinfeng’s heart. The people of Enji Village… what did they have to do with her? Did Huixue mean the life and death of Enji Village’s people had nothing to do with her?
Leaving everything else aside, Huixue being noble, upright, and concerned for all living beings was a widely accepted fact. Huixue’s words had directly denied the most basic part of her character setting. Could breaking character be contagious?
Could Huixue have transmigrated too?
Probably not… Someone who could use Tianbing so skillfully should not be a transmigrator.
Huixue seemed to see through Mu Yinfeng’s thoughts and glanced at her coldly. “Debts and grudges must be repaid. Every bit of sin must be atoned for by the one who committed it. That has always been the rule.”
Huixue was right. Mu Yinfeng understood her thinking. In truth, if the people of Enji Village had not gone to Hanyou Valley to beg for protection, probably no one would have wanted to deal with the aftermath of the Butterfly Goddess. What the people of Enji Village had done was also a great taboo in the cultivation world. A few hundred years ago, Enji Village had provoked someone they never should have provoked.
The people of Enji Village had played a large role in the fall of the Butterfly Goddess back then. It could be said that if not for the ancestors of Enji Village, the Butterfly Goddess might have escaped that death disaster. That matter had involved powerful beings from several realms. One of those realms was the Ice Domain, which stood on equal footing with Huixue’s Snow Domain. The emperor of the Ice Domain had been the Butterfly Goddess’s lover. The Ice Domain and Snow Domain were close neighbors with a close relationship.
But after all, several hundred generations had passed. Punishing later generations for their ancestors’ wrongs was not a reasonable explanation. Besides, the Master of Hanyou Valley had accepted this commission. Standing aside and doing nothing would not be good either.
Huixue glanced at Mu Yinfeng. Her expression seemed to soften, but she still said nothing. She walked straight forward. Only after she was ten steps away did she say coldly, “Contact those three. Tell them to stay where they are, set up barriers, and not move without permission.”
“That is all?” Mu Yinfeng was slightly surprised.
This time, Huixue did not even spare her a glance. Mu Yinfeng knew she had said too much. She took out the voice-transmission spirit stone on her body and sent word to the other three in Huixue’s name.
The voice-transmission spirit stone was like a walkie-talkie. It could only contact people within a certain range. Mu Yinfeng tried for a long time and only found Lin Qiudi. Chang Zui and Abi were both silent.
Mu Yinfeng: Are you not together?
Lin Qiudi: A swarm of butterflies came just now and scattered the three of us. Now none of us can find the others.
Butterflies? Mu Yinfeng thought for a moment. This was most likely controlled by the Butterfly Spirit. Its goal was to divide them and defeat them one by one. The Butterfly Spirit had lost its godhead long ago, but nearly ten thousand years had passed since its fall. After ten thousand years of cultivation, it still had a foundation. Besides, these flying butterflies had all been raised by the Butterfly Spirit herself. They were not comparable to ordinary wild butterflies.
In that short time, the butterflies that had landed on the ground around them surged up again and circled Mu Yinfeng. This time, however, they did not attack with blade-like wings. They changed their method. Powder fell from their wings in rustling waves. Even though Mu Yinfeng was not obsessed with cleanliness, being covered head to toe in butterfly powder irritated her. Tianbing seemed to sense Mu Yinfeng’s mood. Its thin tassels shot out like little snakes and rushed into the butterfly powder filling the sky. At the same time, icy blue light flashed, freezing half the flying butterflies into ice sculptures.
This…
Before Mu Yinfeng had time to marvel, Tianbing rushed at the remaining butterflies that had escaped the net. The icy blue light shone even brighter, leaving the butterflies nowhere to flee. One after another, they turned into frozen butterflies and fell into the grass.
After completing its work, Tianbing shrank back into Mu Yinfeng’s palm and rubbed against her gently. Looking at its harmless appearance, no one would imagine this brocade silk was the culprit behind the field of fallen butterflies.
“Beautifully done, Tianbing,” Mu Yinfeng praised sincerely. Tianbing seemed greatly encouraged. It burrowed straight into Mu Yinfeng’s clothes. The cool silk rubbed back and forth. At this moment, Tianbing was very much like an intelligent little thing kept for play, not a bloodless killing weapon.
Mu Yinfeng: Can you set up a barrier?
Lin Qiudi: I already did, but the butterflies’ attacks are too fierce. The barrier may not hold for long. I am so sleepy now. I really want to sleep.
The butterfly powder in this illusion realm had a powerful hypnotic effect. Abi and Chang Zui had probably already fallen asleep. Falling asleep in an illusion realm and losing the ability to resist was extremely dangerous. Mu Yinfeng quickly warned Lin Qiudi not to sleep, or she might never wake up. Although Lin Qiudi agreed, her tone was listless and full of exhaustion.
This swarm of butterflies was indeed powerful. With Lin Qiudi’s current level, she could hold out for at most fifteen minutes. Time was extremely tight. Mu Yinfeng quickly recalled how the original plot dealt with the Butterfly Spirit. These butterflies had all evolved because the Butterfly Goddess sacrificed herself in blazing fire, so they should not be very afraid of fire. Then what had the original book’s plot been like?
Remember. Hurry up and remember!
Damn it. Tianbing was rubbing back and forth inside her clothes. She could barely think calmly!
Lin Qiudi’s voice on the other side sounded anxious. The situation had clearly reached a critical point. “What do we do now? I can barely hold on over here, but what about Abi? Abi has no ability to fight back at all!”
“Do not panic. Senior Sister Lin, remember this. Do not sleep!” Mu Yinfeng clutched the voice-transmission spirit stone tightly and racked her brain for the method from the original book. Unfortunately, her mind was completely blank. She could clearly remember the strategy for fighting monsters in the next dungeon, but she could not remember this one.
What should she do?
At that moment, a secret message suddenly sounded in the bottom of her heart: “Turn the barrier inward.”
Turn the barrier inward?
Mu Yinfeng’s eyes lit up. A method flashed through her mind. Although barriers were usually opened to resist things outside them, using a barrier to trap an external enemy and then breaking it from within was also a good plan.
Thinking this through, Mu Yinfeng quickly grabbed the spirit stone. “Qiudi, try using the barrier to cover the butterflies!”
Lin Qiudi was a little shocked, but she still followed Mu Yinfeng’s method. “And then what?”
“Break the barrier. Use the sharpness of the barrier fragments to shred the butterflies.” As Mu Yinfeng spoke, she tried to release her spiritual sense and lock onto Lin Qiudi’s position. Thanks to her primordial yin body, her spiritual sense had long surpassed that of her peers by more than three times. Even the interference effect of the illusion realm could not work as expected on her.
If one asked why she had not released her spiritual sense at the first moment, the reason was simple: she had forgotten. Before she transmigrated, she had not specialized in mental power. To her, mental power was something new she had to master.
Her spiritual sense could cover a ten-kilometer radius inside the illusion realm with herself at the center. Everything within that range appeared in her sea of consciousness as a three-dimensional image. She quickly judged Lin Qiudi’s condition. The barrier fragments had shredded the butterflies’ wings, so the danger should be temporarily resolved.
However, even after opening her spiritual sense, she still could not detect Abi or Chang Zui. Her spiritual sense range already exceeded the whole of Enji Village. If she still could not detect those two, it meant they had either actively or passively used some method to prevent themselves from being found.
Just then, the voice from earlier sounded in her heart again. “Yinfeng, help me see where the Butterfly Spirit is.”
It was Huixue’s voice.
Lin Qiudi’s side was no longer in serious danger, so Mu Yinfeng directly locked onto Huixue’s position. Huixue was now at the northwest corner of the illusion realm. Butterfly corpses covered the ground beneath her feet. A silver needle pierced every butterfly.
Clearly, Huixue had been following the Butterfly Spirit’s position. Huixue could determine the Butterfly Spirit’s general location, but she was still affected by the illusion realm and could not find its exact place.
“You know I can see the Butterfly Spirit’s position?” Mu Yinfeng could not help asking.
“You do not need to ask what you do not know. Tell me the Butterfly Spirit’s location.” For a moment, many possible replies surfaced in Huixue’s mind, but in the end, only this sentence came out. “Tell me where the Butterfly Spirit is.”
She knew Mu Yinfeng’s abilities. In her previous life, Mu Yinfeng had controlled puppets by herself. Without extremely powerful mental strength, that would have been impossible. And that kind of mental strength was almost always innate. No matter how hard someone worked later, it would be difficult to cultivate to Mu Yinfeng’s level. Sometimes talent mattered more than effort.
If Mu Yinfeng still possessed this ability, then even without obtaining Changyin, she could still have a place to stand. Although the Changyin Pearl could make Mu Yinfeng’s Changyin pipa advance further, the Changyin Pearl would probably also affect Mu Yinfeng’s temperament. Huixue thought that if this was the case, it did not matter if Mu Yinfeng never obtained the Changyin Pearl.
Mu Yinfeng locked onto the Butterfly Spirit’s position. Her consciousness quickly entered Huixue’s sea of consciousness. Huixue resisted symbolically, but still let her in. The moment Mu Yinfeng’s spiritual sense entered, Huixue’s mind suddenly became clear. What Mu Yinfeng showed her was practically an accurate moving map. Huixue did not even need to use her eyes to know the Butterfly Spirit’s position.
After confirming that no one would approach her for the time being, Mu Yinfeng immediately ran toward the temple dedicated to the Butterfly Goddess. Right now, the Butterfly Spirit was entangled with Huixue and could not get free. It had no time to return and guard its nest. Lin Qiudi, Abi, and Chang Zui could barely take care of themselves. The only person available was Mu Yinfeng.
According to the plot arrangement, the Butterfly Spirit was not actually a very powerful character. But if one truly fought it, it would be disgusting enough to drive someone mad. This temple could provide the Butterfly Spirit with an endless supply of power. It was practically a top-tier supply station, and one that could transfer power from afar. As long as they were inside this illusion realm, as long as the offerings at the Butterfly Goddess Temple remained, the Butterfly Spirit’s power would not be interrupted. If its power was not interrupted, the Butterfly Spirit could not die. After all, back in the heavenly realm, the Butterfly Goddess had been a divine official known for her powerful life force.
Many villagers of Enji Village had also been trapped in the illusion realm. Under the influence of the butterfly powder filling the sky, these villagers without spiritual energy had already fallen into deep sleep. That saved Mu Yinfeng the trouble of being stopped by people when she went to smash the temple.
The Butterfly Goddess Temple stood at the intersection of the two main roads in the village. This was the place with the strongest human presence, so it naturally gathered a great deal of energy. A place that gathered energy and was also rich with incense offerings would make it impossible for the Butterfly Spirit’s power to be weak.
Mu Yinfeng ran to the Butterfly Goddess Temple in one breath. Along the way, butterflies rushed toward her in waves. Fortunately, Tianbing helped her. Wherever Tianbing passed, the butterflies turned into ice powder and fell to the ground.
The Butterfly Goddess Temple was not large. Once inside, the main hall of the Butterfly Goddess stood directly ahead, with the statue of the Butterfly Goddess enshrined within. Mu Yinfeng pushed aside the hazy mist and saw the statue clearly. She could not help sucking in a cold breath.
The Butterfly Goddess statue was exquisitely beautiful. The Butterfly Goddess’s face was elegant and refined, like a light cloud leaving the mountain or a quiet orchid reflecting the moon. It was almost impossible to describe in worldly language.
And that entire face was actually seventy to eighty percent similar to her own.